Reference

The questions these records cannot answer, the options that collect nothing at all, and the end state as a checklist.

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What Location Data Cannot Tell You

Questions routinely asked of a tracking system that it cannot answer, and where the real answer is.

Analysis

A description of the end state, assembled from everything here, as a checklist to measure a proposal against.

Reference

The asks that arrive once a tracking system exists, why each should be declined, and what to offer instead.

Reference

Terms used across these notes, defined once, including several the industry uses to mean different things.

Reference

For each operational question, the option that collects nothing. Worth exhausting first, because the impact assessment will ask.

Analysis

The uses a location system gets put to that it does not support, stated plainly in one place.

Analysis